THE SENATE

The Senate convenes at 10:00 a.m. ET and will resume the House Message with respect to H.R.3326, Department of Defense Appropriations.

Committees

Senate Armed Services (9:30 a.m.): Hearings to examine the nominations of Douglas B. Wilson, of Arizona, to be Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs, Malcolm Ross O'Neill, of Virginia, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology, Mary Sally Matiella, of Arizona, to be Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management and Comptroller, Paul Luis Oostburg Sanz, of Maryland, to be General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, and Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, of California, to be Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment, all of the Department of Defense, and Donald L. Cook, of Washington, to be Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy. SD-G50 .

Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs (9:30 a.m.): Business meeting to consider the nominations of Ben S. Bernanke, of New Jersey, to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Eric L. Hirschhorn, of Maryland, to be Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, Marisa Lago, of New York, to be Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, and Steven L. Jacques, of Kansas, to be Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. SD-538.

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation (10 a.m.): Business meeting to consider S.1562, to provide for a study and report on research on the United States Arctic Ocean and for other purposes, S.1609, to authorize a single fisheries cooperative for the Bering Sea Aleutian Islands longline catcher processor subsector, S.2852, to establish, within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, an integrated and comprehensive ocean, coastal, Great Lakes, and atmospheric research, prediction, and environmental information program to support renewable energy, S.2856, to allow the United States-Canada Transboundary Resource Sharing Understanding to be considered an international agreement for the purposes of section 304(e)(4) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act, S.2859, to reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, S.583, to provide grants and loan guarantees for the development and construction of science parks to promote the clustering of innovation through high technology activities, H.R.3819, to extend the commercial space transportation liability regime, an original bill entitled "Surface Transportation Board Reauthorization Act of 2009", and the nominations of Julie Simone Brill, of Vermont, and Edith Ramirez, of California, both to be a Federal Trade Commissioner, David L. Strickland, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, Nicole Yvette Lamb-Hale, of Michigan, to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce, and Michael A. Khouri, of Kentucky, to be a Federal Maritime Commissioner, and routine lists in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned Corps and Coast Guard. SR-253.

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (10 a.m.): Hearings to examine prospects for our economic future and proposals to secure it. SD-342.

Senate Judiciary (10 a.m.): Business meeting to consider S.714, to establish the National Criminal Justice Commission, S.1624, to amend title 11 of the United States Code, to provide protection for medical debt homeowners, to restore bankruptcy protections for individuals experiencing economic distress as caregivers to ill, injured, or disabled family members, and to exempt from means testing debtors whose financial problems were caused by serious medical problems, S.1765, to amend the Hate Crime Statistics Act to include crimes against the homeless, S.678, to reauthorize and improve the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974, S.1554, to amend the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act of 1974 to prevent later delinquency and improve the health and well-being of maltreated infants and toddlers through the development of local Court Teams for Maltreated Infants and Toddlers and the creation of a National Court Teams Resource Center to assist such Court Teams, S.1789, to restore fairness to Federal cocaine sentencing, S.1376, to restore immunization and sibling age exemptions for children adopted by United States citizens under the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption to allow their admission to the United States, H.R.1741, to require the Attorney General to make competitive grants to eligible State, tribal, and local governments to establish and maintain certain protection and witness assistance programs, and the nominations Barbara L. McQuade, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan, Christopher A. Crofts, to be United States Attorney for the District of Wyoming, Michael W. Cotter, to be United States Attorney for the District of Montana, Mark Anthony Martinez, to be United States Marshal for the District of Nebraska, and James L. Santelle, to be United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, all of the Department of Justice, and O. Rogeriee Thompson, of Rhode Island, to be United States Circuit Judge for the First Circuit. SD-226 .

Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs (2 p.m.): Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight - Hearings to examine an overview of Afghanistan contracts. SD-342.

Senate Indian Affairs (2:15 p.m.): Business meeting to consider pending calendar business; to be immediately followed by an oversight hearing to examine the Cobell v. Salazar settlement agreement. SD-628.

Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation (2:30 p.m.): Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, and Insurance - Hearings to examine carbon monoxide poisoning. SR-253.

Senate Energy and Natural Resources (2:30 p.m.): Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests - Hearings to examine S.1470, to sustain the economic development and recreational use of National Forest System land and other public land in the State of Montana, to add certain land to the National Wilderness Preservation System, to release certain wilderness study areas, to designate new areas for recreation, S.1719, to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah, S.1787, to reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, H.R.762, to validate final patent number 27-2005-0081, and H.R.934, to convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands. SD-366.

Senate (Select) Intelligence (2:30 p.m.): Closed hearings to consider certain intelligence matters. SH-219 .

THE HOUSE

The House is in session.

Committees

House Oversight and Government Reform (10 a.m.): Domestic Policy Subc. On taxpayer rights and government shareholding. 2154 RHOB.

House Foreign Affairs (10 a.m.): Africa and Global Health Subc. On elections in Africa. Dept. and public witnesses. 2172 RHOB.

House Judiciary (10 a.m.): Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security Subc. On recent inspector general reports concerning the FBI. Dept. and public witnesses. 2141 RHOB.

House Homeland Security (10 a.m.): Management, Investigations, and Oversight Subc. On examining the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector's General audit of the amount of taxpayer dollars the Department spent on conferences, retreats, and other offsite activities. Dept. witnesses. 311 CHOB.